- (v.t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (v.t.) A gambling house.
- (v.t.) To overwhelm.
- (v.t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered.
- (v.t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- (v.t.) The place of the dead or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- (v.t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds or a printer his broken type.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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